Editing War film (section)

=== Documentary ===
{{further|Documentary war film|List of World War II documentary films}}

The wartime authorities in both Britain and America produced a wide variety of [[documentary]] films. Their purposes included military training, advice to civilians, and encouragement to maintain security. Since these films often carried messages, they grade into propaganda. Similarly, commercially produced films often combined information, support for the war effort, and a degree of propaganda.<ref name="Swann1989" /><ref name="Manning2004" /> [[Newsreels]], ostensibly simply for information, were made in both Allied and Axis countries, and were often dramatised.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Art of Wartime Newsreels – 1940 through 1946 |url=http://1940s.org/the-art-of-wartime-newreels-1940-through-1946 |publisher=1940s.org |access-date=8 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145934/http://1940s.org/the-art-of-wartime-newreels-1940-through-1946 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=German Wartime Newsreels (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) |url=http://ihffilm.com/gerwarnew.html |publisher=International Historic Films |access-date=8 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402194402/http://ihffilm.com/gerwarnew.html |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Wartime Newsreel British News Now Online|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/2012/05/04/british-news|publisher=British Universities Film & Video Council|access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> More recently, in the [[Iran–Iraq War]], [[Morteza Avini]]'s ''[[Ravayat-e Fath]]'' (Chronicles of Victory) television series combined front-line footage with commentary.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rastegar |first1=Kamran |title=Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-939017-5 |page=213}}</ref>